Who said girls aren’t good at math?

This just in from the Associated Press: Girls are just as good at math as their male peers.

Oh, and it’s Barbie’s fault that it hasn’t been that way all along.

The AP reports:

Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.

In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science.

Parents and teachers persist in thinking boys are simply better at math, said Janet Hyde, the University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who led the study. And girls who grow up believing it wind up avoiding harder math classes.